The Sock & Buskin Senior Slot Production occurs every Fall semester and is an excellent opportunity for a capstone experience. Every year, one junior (or .5 senior) TAPS concentrator is selected to direct a mainstage production in the following academic year’s Sock and Buskin Season. We have now opened this opportunity to playwrights, as well as directors. This opportunity is open for proposals from:

As part of its commitment to community engagement and engaged scholarship, the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University is hosting a series of community conversations around the upcoming production, 410[GONE].

410[GONE], a new play by Brown University alum, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig ’05, uses comedy to take a look at the limits of love and how we release loved ones when they are gone. This “tragi-comedy suicide play” draws on Chinese and American cultural traditions to tell the story of Twenty-One, a young Chinese-American women struggling to find answers in the wake of the death of her brother, Seventeen.

Last month American Dance Legacy Initiative, in partnership with Artists and Scientists as Partners (ASaP), hosted a lecture/demonstration as part of their annual Mini-Fest which brought together dancers, students, educators, and general audiences to discuss and celebrate America’s rich dance heritage together.